Capital Rotary Club

Our speaker on Wednesday morning, January 13^th was Chaplain and Lt. Colonel Brian Bohlman. Lt Col Brian Bohlman is an author, adjunct seminary instructor, behavioral healthcare chaplain, and has served in the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps since 1992. Among his numerous military and civilian awards, he was named the Chaplain of the Year in the Air National Guard in 2013.  In 2002, his family founded Operation Thank You.org as a non-profit organization which inspires America’s bravest by providing a variety of thank you cards and outreach programs to current service members, wounded warriors, veterans, and military families. Proceeds from his books help support the ongoing work of Operation Thank You.org.

Lt. Colonel Bohlman spoke about his deployment to Afghanistan in 2013 as the Senior Air Force Chaplain at Craig Joint Theatre Hospital, Bagram Airfield.

He has served on the National Executive Committee of the Military Chaplains Association (MCA) of the USA and is currently the senior editor for the “Voices of Chaplaincy” book trilogy to be released by the MCA. He is a life member of the Military Officers Association of America, National Guard Association, American Legion, and Military Chaplains Association of the USA. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Chaplains. He and his family reside in South Carolina.

Our speaker on Wednesday morning, December 2^nd will be Mr. William Hubbard. Mr. Hubbard is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough where he practices in business litigation, business torts, and breach of fiduciary duty claims.  Mr. Hubbard is the Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association.  He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina and was Board Chairman from 1996-2000.  Mr. Hubbard earned both his Bachelor’s and J.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina.

Our speaker on Wednesday morning, November 18h was Mr. Bill Davies, Jr.  Mr. Davies, Jr., formally a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for 34 years, practiced law in Columbia, South Carolina in the areas of general litigation, general product liability, toxic torts and mass tort litigation. He has been retired since January 1, 2010. Active in community affairs, Mr. Davies served on the board of directors of the Family Service Center, the Harvest Hope Food Bank, and the United Way of the Midlands. Mr. Davies also served on the Citadel Class of 1964 50th Reunion Capital Campaign Committee.  He has been active in local Episcopal churches including St Martin’s in the Fields for 19 years and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral since 1992. He is a member of the Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society, the South Carolina Archives & History Foundation,  the South Carolina Historical Society, the Charleston Museum, the South Carolina State Museum, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Civil War Trust, the Blue and Gray Educational Society, the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military History Museum, the Military Order of the Stars and Bars and the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust.  Bill’s remarks on Wednesday will pertain to all things Robert Mills.

Prior to joining Nelson Mullins, Mr. Davies was a captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Army serving on active duty for over 5 years with duty stations at Ft. Lewis, Washington as well as Frankfurt, Germany and Vicenza, Italy.   Bill earned a Juris Doctor from the University Of South Carolina School Of Law in 1967. In 1964, Mr. Davies earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from The Citadel.   Mr. Davies was born and had his basic education in Greenwood, South Carolina, while spending all of his summers at Edisto Beach, South Carolina. He has been happily married to the former Mahalie King Brown of Anderson, South Carolina since 1966. They have three children and nine grandchildren.

Our speaker on Wednesday morning, November 4th was Mr. Fred Delk, Executive Director of the Columbia Development Corporation, the organization has worked for the past 30 years to develop the Congaree Vista and South Columbia.

Fred has held the CDC position for the past 19 years, working with a wide range of projects including Columbia’s Governor’s Hill, Vista Commons Apartments, the Publix Grocery Store the renovation of 701 Whaley Street and most recently the purchase and plan for redevelopment of the 100 year old Palmetto Compress Warehouse.  These developments and others sponsored by the corporation were accomplished by a unique blend of creative finance and public/private partnerships.

Delk has extensive experience in Brownfields redevelopment and was the National Brownfields Renewal Person of the Year for 2011.   CDC projects have won numerous awards including the International Downtown Association’s Pinnacle Award. Delk has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects as a Public Supporter of Design Excellence.